Books: Mr. Anderson

DARK LAUGHTERSherwood AndersonBoni & Liyeright ($2.50).
Life on the Mississippi is a
different thing to Mr. Anderson from what it was to Mark Twain. The living
writer sends a wife-weary, word-worn, middle-aged reporter vagabonding
away from life's respectable responsibilities along the banks of the
Mississippi and the Ohio. To this reporter, Bruce Dudley, life in the
raw is as appealing as words in the raw are to Mr. Anderson. He goes
among the sensual, matter-of-fact river Negroes, and absorbs
impressions among white factory workers who are not much different. He
becomes...